hello everyone and welcome to Portland [aplausse] on stage we have, you should know everybody up here already but Steve: Introduce yourself first Patty: I dont want to introduce myself Steve: This is Patty [aplausse] Patty: we have Steve Langasek, Geral Turner and case cook They are the reason for everything that goes right anything that goes wrong, you can blame on ?? Steve: Well, you can blame it on Steve, I dont know if you can blame him particularly - Thats it - thats it ok, so Patty had the honor to welcoming you all to portland welcome to portland, welcomo to debconf14 its so good to see you here hows it the weather you getting enough rain? did it met everybody's expectations? So, who arrieved yesterday and had the chance to... so people started to setteling in aclimatizing... dealing with jetlag everybody's got some farmer's market this morning enjoying the coffee from the coffee cart and everything.. good! yeah, its really good to have everybody here and hopefully you are ready for some great sessions this week we've got quite the line up the schedule this year is different form whats been in the past where rather than having a debcamp beforehand and a debconf we casted 2 separated weeks we are doing something were kinda intertiwing the two and so we've got a schedule that allows for a full set of talks but also some dedicated hack time so, take advantage of that, do great stuff enjoy the talks, talk to people, socialize all the goodness. hopefully you will find the format to your liking and if you dont, we would like to hear that feedback as well but, enjoy the conference... what else can i say you stole my introduction, which i was going to introduce a little bit the local team here, so, joel turner all-around great guy, awesome community member here in portland where is our cheesemaster??, which is one of the reasons why you should see his face coming up we have the cheese and wine party the traditional social event on monday so if you dont want the cheese to melt on your way to the venue, you probably wanna get it to him before the evening of monday so there will be information going on about that but this is gerald, thank him for all his great work on this conference [applause] and case cook, whose the master mind behind behind getting us a network for working on this conference as you see, we are actually embedded on the portland state network so you are using stardard psu network infrastructure rather than debconf instrastructure this year hopefully thats holding up for everybody we also have, wired hacklabs and other stuff as well if its not working for you but.. hes trying to pass the credit to mike tiger who i dont see on the audience mike, if you are here, stand up! mike! also part of the local team who is local and hes in seattle where the rain actually falls other members of the local team if you could just stand up now and show your faces pietro, tony,... yeah weve got very commited team that put this conference together and thank you all Patty: they should be standing here with us Steve: we dont need to punish everybody anyway, what else can i say i do have a list of announcements will the owner of a white cheeves... no... ah patty: nobody is going to get that Steve: I think they have cars on other countries too... that joke ?? I dont know announcements, first of all if you are sitting on this room you are not of the off camera area so just so you know, the set up this year do the orientations of the rooms and what not in order to be able to see audience members speaking on camera as well as effectively the actual rooms are 100% you might be film so, if you are concern about being filmed you take advantage of the hacklabs we have live streams for all of the talks, so you be able to ?? remotely in theory if you are concern about being not captured on camera, you are not going to be standing up and asking questions hopefully, this works for everybody if there are any concerns about it, you can come talk to me about it and we can try to figure out what can work for you better if thats not a solution adhoc talks schedulings. so part of what is going on here is we do have, during our blocks of hacktime, we know hacking is not a solo activity necesarily so we want to give you the opportunity to schedule spaces where you can sit down and have small groups discussions and what not so all of the rooms will be availables for that during the periods of time which are blocked as hacktime on the schedule the scheduling for those rooms will be done on the wiki the pages will be open for scheduling 24 hours in advance in order to make sure it is in fact ad hoc and not people squating the rooms for those kind of things but its available, so if you think oh, geez, id be good to have a place where we can have a meeting about this thing, thats avaiable to you as well debconf-discuss, if you are not subscribed, it is recommended that youd be just in terms of ?? information during the conference we try to get major things send out to debconf-announce so times theres a little of delay until these things are get out so debconf-discuss also... you know, theres a lot of information going around that doesnt necesarily comes from the organizers as organizers, but its useful for people to know about so if you want to tap in whats going on debconf-discuss, please make sure you subscribe its a very useful resource during the conference to keep track of whats going on other stuff, you know, if theres anything that you are not sure about, the frontdesk which im not sure... any frontdesk people here in the audience? yes, right back there theres frontdesk people so get them a round of applause [applause] they do a tremendous work every year of making sure the conference runs smoothly and they are the only fixed point whthin the entire system where people can go to and coordinate, so if you are not sure where something is or someone is or whats going on the frontdesk is there, its just down the hall its labeled frontdesk, etc and its a nexus... the brain of the conference right there we have a couple of changes of the schedule which happens late that i want to make sure people knows about there was some confusion about available meal times which lead to a lead change to our dinner schedule as well as our evening talks schedule so rather than have the last talk of the day being from 5 to 5:45 it turns out the dinners at university's cafeteria is going to be served from 5 to 5:30, so rather than having everybody rush to get served in a 45 minutes block after the last talk the last talk of the evening each day is going to be from 7 to 7:45 and that takes effect starting today so we will have dinner at 5 and an after dinner talk at 7 you might have noticed as well if you are in sponsored food that there was a bit of a problem this morning with the branch opening times, my apologies, there was some miscommunication issues with the university about that we beliveve we have straighnen that out so going forward the meal times are documented on the wiki and on the schedule brunch starting, it should start at 11 to 13:30 i believe is the correct time dont take my work for it. the wiki and the schedule knows better than i do theres also the coffee, i think i eluded to that early we organized coffee to make available to all atendees if you show your badge, the drip coffee and expresso and ?? tea wich ?? latte, which is only two blocks and im going to point the right way, two blocks that way its a nice little coffee card, if you have never been to portland before carts are a thing here... food carts, beverage carts its the way to go. so theres a coffee cart under the parking garage so its great coffee, who here had the coffee already? Patty: whos desapointed with it? Steve: oh, nobody is desapointed or nobody will admit to it in front of patty [laughs] so yeah, take advantage of that its sponsored by the conference, choice of drinks, etc,... and they give you a discount if you want somethin other than those basic drinks as well okay, i need to ask about volunteers about the cheese and wine party i just asked for volunteers for the cheese and wine party so, im asking for volunteers for the cheese and wine party we do need people to help with, i believe is the moving of things and set up, so if you are going to be available on tuesday monday, 6 pm, we want some volunteers for that and gerald is going to be the person to, with coordinate as well and i believe we are going to have some announcement mail with more details going out today/ tomorrowish to try to ?? the details on that last thing i have, we do have 2 hacklabs if you have only seen this floor of the building so far well, we have 2 hacklabs, and we have the balcony, and we have the park and all these other wonderful spaces that are available the psu campus where you can feel absolutely free to hack but if you have only seen this floor you should be aware, theres a second hacklab which is downstaris the room numbers 238 and if you go down the stairs basically is this way and its called the browsie launch ?? you'll see that sign first but that is available to you specially since this hacklab overhere which is room 333 theres some issues with the climate control in there we have shade missing in one corner so its getting a lot of sun in the afternoons and its supposed to be rather warm this week so you might find yourself getting rather warm be aware that air conditioning is working great in room 38 as far as i can tell, so, thats available to you and it will only cost you a short walk down the stairs or a short elevator trip to get there theres been an announcement on debconf-announcement i think, the late night hacklabs this building closes at 10 pm everyday they are keeping it open for us passed normal hours so we are able to make use of it, it normally closes at 6pm on sunday, we are keeping it open until 10pm for the conference so you will have access to this space however after 10 pm everybody have to be out of this building which means obviosly, since hacking doesnt obey time zones or schedules, we need to make sure that we are providing for you and the solution we have in place is the broadway residence hall, which is where most of the people staying on campus are staying, that building on the second floor which you get to through the 6 avenue entry, instead of the jackson streen entry so not the residential entrance, but the other entrance where you checked in, that seconf floor is basically available for our use there are various lunge chairs, there actually classrooms that are available if you want a more sturdy hacking space feel free to use that in the evenings if you are not staying on campus, you will not be able to get into that building on your own after 8 pm, i trust that you are all capable of organazing a solution ive never known debian people had any dificulty organizing around anything so, body up with somebody that is staying in the dorms feel free to come by its just a matter that you will not be able to get to the building but you are welcome to come over there and make use of that space everybody that is coming to the conference is welcome to use that space after... well 24h and that is all i have, and i think i have steve mcentire ?? had some announcement anything else? once again, welcome to debconf and i handle over to uncle steve oh, this thign is on, wow so a lot of people probably have noticed we had quite heated discussions in debian in the last year or so ?? plenty who hasnt theres been a lot of disccusion going on, theres some people have got very very tired of it, theres have been some strong words in the middle of all however, there has been at least one person who seems to be able to keep his head, has not really well, lost its cool at all that we can see i know from talking to him in another venues as well hes being going through a massive amount of stress at work he just changed employers recently and everything well, that hasnt spill over at all in terms on hows hes dealing with other people in debian and i know i have been very impressed, a lot of us have and we have a little something to show appreciation russ, are you here? [applauses] please come up so this is very much instigated from some of the folks in the uk and in particular ?? cant be here this week so he trusted this to me ??, my good friend from the uk as well was responsible for doing some of the manufacturing of this but russ, in conmemoration of your massive patience we would like to present you with the debcon ill let him read it outloud russ: oh, this is great, because now i dont have to decide what to say debcon5, discussions happens threads are short, problems get solved threads get long, arguments are repeated debconf4, links to threads get posted on reddit and HN, LWN writes articles debcon3, trolls show up, listmasters ban people debcon2, UN security committee meets GRs are proposed and voted on debcon1, laser cannons are launched into planetary orbit russ gets midly annoyed [applause] Steve: i think thats it for us in preparing the welcome talk i was a bit confused because i didnt know what to say.. and when consulting with people turns out this it is really it which is how i manged to actually miss the welcome talk for the last 3 debconfs running because is short, sweet and out of the way so... welcome and have a good conference [applause]